How and Why Cost Optimization is Crucial to Cloud Management

Welcome to our CloudCheckr Partner Webinar!

Advanced cost management helps you make sense of every detail in your cloud ecosystem. If you plan, automate, and optimize cloud spending —your business can grow with confidence. CloudCheckr offers a unified view of your entire public cloud, helping you improve governance and save money. The platform automates critical cost management actions such as budget alerting, cost allocation, and invoicing. You’ll gain purchasing strategies and recommendations, right-sizing of your environment with alerts for idle or unused resources, and 550+ essential best practice checks.

Join CloudCheckr partner, Pinnacle Technology, for this specialized webinar session on how IT and finance teams can understand, navigate, and address the constantly changing enterprise cloud environment. You'll learn why visibility and control are critical for budgeting and forecasting, how governance and accountability can prevent sprawl. For Finance, you'll find out how CFOs can ensure their organization is taking advantage of optimization opportunities. Bring the team together and learn how to navigate cross-departmental challenges to ensure alignment around your orgs cloud initiative.

The financial services industry is increasingly using cloud services for business-critical operations. But how do you keep cloud data secure? Join this webinar where we’ll cover what leading finserv organizations do to manage risk in the cloud, their best practice for security and compliance with federally regulated requirements, and strategies to minimize data breaches in the cloud.

Just as traditional Managed Service Providers (MSP) businesses are evolving with the rapid adoption of the cloud, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) MSP Partner Program criteria is always changing. The program recognizes highly skilled AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners that provide full lifecycle solutions to customers. AWS recently released Version 4.0 of its Validation Checklist, and is requiring all APN Partners to meet requirements by April 1, 2019.

Achieving AWS MSP Partner Program Validation is possible and easy with the right preparation. In this webinar, attendees will hear a summary of the new requirements, how CloudCheckr helps MSPs meet those checklist items, and areas where MSPs can increase cloud growth and profit going forward.

In the rapidly growing, ever-changing cloud computing industry, Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) are discovering a major challenge: How do we add value and enhance our service offerings, while also increasing margins to ensure profitability? Robust cloud solutions are necessary to stand out and solve for customer pain points. However, it can be difficult to find the right partners to integrate into your platform.

Join Microsoft Azure Cloud Solutions Architect, Rob Kuehfus, and CloudCheckr's in-house Azure experts to explore common challenges facing CSPs today, and how to solve them with a comprehensive, independent Cloud Management Platform. Not only will attendees learn the specific tools offered by CloudCheckr for Azure, but they will also learn how to increase margins and profitability with our offering.

Our experts will cover cost optimization, leveraging Reserved Instances, and following Security Best Practices that go above and beyond Azure Advisor and Azure Security Center. Additionally, how CloudCheckr helps you track Office365 licenses and integrate with Azure Active Directory, and how to use CloudCheckr to generate invoices automatically, including custom charges as desired.

Whether you know it or not, you are likely utilizing cloud computing in your day-to-day life. From storing and sharing hundreds of photos and videos on your phone, to deploying high-priority workloads in a massive enterprise organization; cloud computing offers a fast, flexible, and economically viable option for delivering computing services over the Internet.

The benefits of cloud computing are constantly growing as new functionalities are released daily by major cloud services providers, namely, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). In this complimentary webinar, we will review the top ten reasons for adopting a cloud-first infrastructure in medium-to-large enterprises, managed services, and public sector organizations.

Key takeaways from this session include an understanding of cloud computing, shared responsibility related to public cloud security, how to optimize cloud spend, and why cloud management is essential while using AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. All organizations considering building a cloud-native architecture must leverage this knowledge to properly prepare for the future.

From the brand new CloudCheckr Success Center, to new user-friendly product features, CloudCheckr has a variety of new tools to help manage your cloud infrastructure.

The CloudCheckr Success Center folds our traditional support site into a new platform, with training videos, helpful guides, and a shared library of code samples. Our app is now easier than ever to use efficiently, especially for power users, thanks to multi-select dropdown filters.

Our application remains up-to-date as our cloud partners, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure, continue to announce support for new instance types and regions. Plus, we’ve made your auditors happy with our SnapBack™ feature, which gives you up to seven years or historical reports. And by comparison, our competitors only offer two-to-three months.

Watch this webinar to learn the details on CloudCheckr's latest updates and easy-to-use functions.

Properly managing cloud resources is one of the most effective ways to reduce complexity and lower your monthly cloud spend. Yet, maintaining accountability across an ephemeral IaaS infrastructure can be a challenge for Finance and DevOps teams.

With the proper tagging strategy and implementation, organizations will be able to manage cloud costs around their EC2 instances and resources. Additionally, individuals can operate an easy-to-use tagging system to create invoices in just minutes.

Join CloudCheckr for a webinar discussing proactive tactics and tips to execute an AWS and Azure multi-cloud tagging strategy as your organization scales, including common use cases, homogenizing tagging structures to save time and avoid confusion, tagging best practices, and tagging enforcement policies.

Join this one-on-one interview with Gerry Fassig, VP of Cloud at CoreSite , for an in-depth discussion on how hyperconnected data centers can transform enterprise IT.

Gerry will be answering questions live and discussing the following:

- What are the drivers for hyperconnected data centers?
- How is cloud, interconnection and direct connectivity influencing CoreSite's strategy?
- How important are the public cloud providers in the development of hyperconnected data centers?
- What makes a true hyperconnected data center and in what way can it transform enterprise IT?

The Public Cloud may be new to many enterprises, but it has been around long enough for Best Practices to have been established. As organizations migrate to the cloud, they do not have to start from scratch. They can leverage policies, or frameworks, established by cloud gurus and avoid repeating the mistakes of the early adopters. It is also important to get buy-in from different departments, so establishing a Cloud Center of Excellence is highly recommended.

Attendees of this CloudCheckr webinar will learn what a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) is and who should participate in one. They will also understand the pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework (WAF) and discover how CloudCheckr can help establish both a CCoE and WAF.

Welcome to CloudCheckr Partner Webinars—where comprehensive cloud management meets a managed service provider to help you recognize the full potential of cloud infrastructure as a service.

In this webinar, CloudCheckr joins forces with Mission (the combination of Reliam, G2, and Stratalux) to cover the basics and best practices of Amazon Web Services cost optimization. Webinar attendees will learn how to identify common cloud spend wastes on unused and unattached resources, instance right-sizing, up or down, or across families based on utilization, and how to create significant savings with Reserved Instance purchases.

The promise of the cloud was to pay for only what you use. The reality is you pay for what you order, whether you use it or not. Let Mission, a leading AWS managed services and consulting partner, help you achieve your mission and if that means saving on the cloud, this webinar has got you covered.

Welcome to CloudCheckr Partner Webinars—where comprehensive cloud management meets a managed service provider to help you recognize the full potential of cloud infrastructure as a service.

Modern enterprises are embracing the cloud primarily as a way to save money. But just as “Server Sprawl” was a problem with data centers, Cloud Sprawl can quickly become a concern. Without Cloud Cost Management, running a constantly growing and evolving set of public cloud services in a dynamic environment can easily get out of hand. In an ephemeral environment, resources can easily become under-utilized or wasted—negating any potential cost savings in the cloud.

To further complicate the cost of the cloud, instances can be purchased at different rates, depending on how and when they are used. When left to individuals across different departments, teams, and business units, purchase decisions are less than optimal.

Your organization needs to stay safe as you grow—which is why a comprehensive cloud platform should unify cost and security management. In this webinar featuring Pinnacle Technology Partners, attendees will learn about the risks involved with poor visibility and lack of control in AWS and Microsoft Azure, RI Purchasing and Right-sizing Recommendations, and why AWS and Azure perform better with Cloud Management tools.

Welcome to CloudCheckr Partner Webinars—where comprehensive cloud management meets managed services to recognize the full potential of cloud infrastructure as a service.

You’ll want to attend this webinar with Josh Bouk, Cass Information Systems Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and CloudCheckr Cloud Management Expert, Todd Bernhard. Together Josh and Todd will show you how to reduce your cloud spend by 30%, while actually increasing cloud adoption in your organization. Takeaways from the webinar include best practices for accurate allocation and chargeback/showback to your cost centers and business units.

Adoption of public cloud providers has transformed the way companies manage their IT infrastructure. Enterprise IT is no longer built on fixed, up-front capital expenses. Dynamic, elastic environments that require daily management to keep operations at scale are the norm. Discover enterprise cloud management services on this CloudCheckr Partner Webinar.

MSPs, CSPs, and resellers often have a tough enough time generating invoices for their customers. Add to that the demands of a multi-cloud environment, with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and more, and it becomes extremely challenging to allocate billing and invoicing.

The solution is automation and self-healing. CloudCheckr can automatically generate invoices and even help resellers profit by keeping discounts and credits allocated among clients, presenting list price, as well as custom charges and credits as desired.

Attendees will learn:
- How to turn billing and invoicing into a profit center
- Creative tag mapping strategies
- How to structure automation monthly, weekly, and daily

Of course, there are no such things as monsters. But Zombies (unattached, unused, and idle resources), Giants (wrong-sized resources), and Vampire Blood Suckers (expensive on-demand instances) are a very real cloud infrastructure nightmare.

Welcome to CloudCheckr Webinars—where we learn how to use comprehensive cloud management in the modern enterprise, as a service provider, and in the public sector.

In this webinar, service providers and resellers looking to maximize profits, automatically generate invoices, and control where charges and discounts are applied will find that CloudCheckr cost management fits the bill.

We’ll focus on the benefits of Reserved Instances, commonly known as RIs. The major cloud providers—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP)—all offer a form of discount for customers who reserve computing power in advance. These Reserved Instances can result in savings of up to 75% compared to on-demand rates. For committed cloud users, RIs can be a great deal.

Attend this webinar to learn how to use arbitrage and CloudCheckr Reserved Instance Purchase Recommendations, as a managed service provider (MSP), to increase profitability.

Welcome to CloudCheckr Partner Webinars—where comprehensive cloud management meets a managed service provider to help you recognize the full potential of cloud infrastructure as a service.

CloudCheckr is joining forces with Mission (formerly Reliam) to deliver the key takeaways you need to know about the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Mission is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) trusted consulting and Managed Services Provider (MSP) for public cloud platforms.

Amazon created the AWS Well-Architected Framework to help IT professionals build a secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. They did so with Five Pillars, including: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization.

Plus, all live webinar attendees will receive access to a free, 15-minute assessment with a Well-Architected Review expert.

Understand the concepts that make up the AWS Well-Architected Framework and how to use CloudCheckr, alongside the framework, to achieve operational excellence. Download the attached white paper during the webinar.

As the cloud becomes part of any business’ standard operating procedure, the demands on Managed Service Providers (MSPs) has increased as well. End customers are expecting more when it comes to reporting, security, and best practices. And it’s not just customers with changing expectations; Amazon has increased their requirements when it comes to MSPs, with an updated MSP Validation Checklist. Failing an audit could be devastating; the right tools can help. CloudCheckr makes it easy for MSPs to meet their obligations—to Amazon and their clients.

In this webcast, attendees will learn:

- New requirements as part of Amazon’s MSP Validation Checklist 3.3
- How CloudCheckr helps MSPs meet those checklist items
- Areas where MSPs can increase growth and margins using CloudCheckr

When launching and maintaining a cloud-first infrastructure with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or GCP, it’s easy to lose track of underused or underutilized items. However, properly managing cloud resources is one of the most effective ways to reduce your monthly cloud spend. In this foundational webinar, we walk through initial challenges you may face after migrating to the cloud, and discuss different ways to tackle them.

Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), like CloudCheckr, regularly check for underused and underutilized items in your cloud and present them to you with options for the next step. CloudCheckr makes recommendations based on analytics, and the results speak for themselves: Customers typically report saving 30% on their cloud spend per month.

This 201 session is part of a comprehensive Cloud Cost Management mini series, designed to arm you with the essential knowledge you need to succeed in the cloud. You will learn cloud cost best practices, tips and tricks to better optimize your AWS and Azure consoles, and utilization best practices. This webinar is designed for service providers, resellers, and public sector organizations.

When launching and maintaining a cloud-first infrastructure with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or GCP, it’s easy to lose track of underused or underutilized items. However, properly managing cloud resources is one of the most effective ways to reduce your monthly cloud spend. In this foundational webinar, we walk through initial challenges you may face after migrating to the cloud, and discuss different ways to tackle them.

Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), like CloudCheckr, regularly check for underused and underutilized items in your cloud and present them to you with options for the next step. CloudCheckr makes recommendations based on analytics, and the results speak for themselves: Customers typically report saving 30% on their cloud spend per month.

This 101 session is part of a comprehensive Cloud Cost Management mini series, designed to arm you with the essential knowledge you need to succeed in the cloud. You will learn cloud cost best practices, tips and tricks to better optimize your AWS and Azure consoles, and utilization best practices. This webinar is designed for service providers, resellers, and public sector organizations.